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Tag: forgiveness

  • Round the Bend and Back Again

    Round the Bend is a Nevil Shute novel about Tom, a British airplane mechanic who moves to the Middle East after his wartime marriage ends in disaster. In our online book club, I had a long but inconclusive discussion with my father about why Tom did that. This vignette is…

  • Playlist DBJ-GTEM: Going The Extra Mile

    Overcoming enmity, by going the extra mile, in order to grow us all closer to Jesus. See also: DBJ-SHON: Salome’s Honor DBJ-MOGA: Moses Overcomes God’s Anger (Exodus 32)

  • Communion of the Betrayed

    1 Corinthians 11:23 — For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread.., Similar to HeartSync or Sozo, Communion of the Betrayed (COTB) — also known as Soul Shift — is for inner healing of…

  • Playlist DBJ-2021B-LOVE: Loving More Like Jesus

    Wedding at Cana: John 2:1-11 Woman Caught in Adultery: John 8:1-11 Rich Young Ruler: Mark 10:17-31 Unforgiving Servant: Matthew 18:15-35 Washing Disciples Feet: John 13:1-17 Fruit of the Vine: John 15:1-17 Jubilee (Review & Commission)

  • Becoming a Jesus-Lover

    It is a very good thing to be a follower of Jesus. But like people in the gospels, we today can end up following Jesus for many reasons: salvation, miracles, curiosity, etc. Those are all good things. But they are not the same as actually loving Jesus for Himself. It…

  • TGR-S6E5: Wounded Feelings

    Join us on The Great Reset (via Zoom or YouTube Live at Tue Dec 29 1PM PST) as we work through the revelations from last week’s episode. Question: How should we respond when we are hurt by the actions of other believers — who themselves are hurting? Perspective: Seek the…

  • Prelude to Reconciliation

    Type I Response I feel pain Someone just did something I see what they did wrong I blame them for my pain It is because they are broken I try to fix them They do not let me This implies they will cause me more pain I escalate or run…

  • Monk’s Redemption: A Psychological Allegory

    The Vision
I see a locked door. In a dark and scary place, like a monster movie. Big, iron, with crisscrossed chains and padlocks.
Natalie walks up holding a flashlight. Monk trails behind nervously.
Suddenly Stottlemeyer steps in front of them. His eyes are bloodshot, as if he has been drinking, crying, or…

  • Redeeming Charlottesville: A Cry of Radical Compassion

    O God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ: We praise You because You are a good God. In a world that seems filled with brokenness and evil, thank You for taking all that upon Yourself through the cross, so that we might be made whole. Our hearts go out…

  • Fixing Saint Paul, Scene 1: Awakening Barnabas

    The Story Acts 13:13 Paul and his companions then left Paphos by ship for Pamphylia, landing at the port town of Perga. There John Mark left them and returned to Jerusalem. The Backstory Scene 1: Awakening “Barnabas? Are you awake?” Barnabas rolled over on his cot to gaze at the…

  • Song: That’s Grace

    Part 2 of the Guilt-Grace-Gratitude musical trilogy, from my 1996 meditations on The Grace Cycle.

  • Song: From Guilt to Grace

    The following song is a lyrical version of “Graphical Theology: The Grace Cycle“, part of my burst of artistic exploration in 1996. It was the first element of a trilogy on the Reformation themes of Guilt-Grace–Gratitude, but unlike the other two I never was happy enough with it to put…

  • Unforgiven: A Testimony in Three Persons

    I’m in the process of cleaning up my “personal” site on DrErnie.com, and as part of that I’m moving some of my earlier writings to this site. To start with, I present “Unforgiven”, a more-or-less accurate transcript of the first time God really dealt with me about anger… Unforgiven A…

  • LEAD! C.3 Persistent Prayer

    Prayer is the process of aligning our thoughts, desires, and decisions with the Name of God, so that His Spirit can work through us to transform our lives, our relationships, and our world. Memory Verse:”Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What…

  • LEAD! B.8 From Anger to Reconciliation

    Few things destroy the church more rapidly than anger and unforgiveness. To carry our cross means extending forgiveness to those who don’t deserve it, as Jesus did to us.

  • LEAD! B.4 From Folly to Love

    Folly is a cycle of self-punishment disguised as the pursuit of pleasure. The only way out is to receive God’s love, to the point where we love Him more than the false gods to which we’ve enslaved ourselves.

  • Twelve Steps to Arrow-Proof Your Ministry

    Apologies for the pretentious title, but I wanted to challenge myself to identify and reorganize the lessons we covered in last year’s leadership class into a coherent prescription for facing down “Ministry Killers”.